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" Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive... "
The Earth: Its Physical Condition and Most Remarkable Phenomena - Page 123
by William Mullinger Higgins - 1836 - 408 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1868 - 632 pages
...environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, 637 "Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads...bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succor far ; So glister'd the dire snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1868 - 440 pages
...environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame (Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends) Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way 640 To bogs and mires and oft through pond or pool, There swallowed up and lost, from succor far ;...
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A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected

Leigh Hunt - 1870 - 374 pages
...oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool ; There swallow'd up and lost, from succor far. So glister'd the dire Snake. We have remarked more than once,...
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Irish Folk Lore: Traditions and Superstitions of the Country, with Humorous ...

John O'Hanlon - 1870 - 382 pages
...oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amaz'd night-wanderer from his way, — To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far." — MlLTOS. " Now quivering like the ray On which it seems...
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The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by ..., Issue 322

John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads...bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far ; So glister'd the dire snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our...
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First Impressions of England and Its People

Hugh Miller - 1873 - 396 pages
...blazing with delusive light, Leading the amazed night -wanderer from his way Through bogs and mires,and oft through pond or pool, There swallowed up and lost, from succour far." Scarce inferior to eveu the description of Milton is that of Collins : — " Ah, homely swains...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost

John Milton - 1874 - 468 pages
...attends), Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way 640 To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallowed up and lost, from succour far : So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions ..., Volume 1

John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame (Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends), Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way 640 To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallowed up and lost, from succour far...
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Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early ...

Joseph Ritson - 1875 - 448 pages
...oft, they say, some EVIL SPIRIT attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads th' amaz'd night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond and pool." 3 1 Anatomy of Melancholie. s Act iii. sc. i. 3 Paradise Lost, b. ix. This great poet is...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1875 - 824 pages
...environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his waj To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour i'ar;...
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